Ouro Preto

Minas Gerais · Brazil

Ouro Preto, Brazil
Photo: Raquel Mendes Silva, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
April to September
Budget
$$
Accessibility
limited
Coordinates
Open in maps

A hilly colonial gold-rush town of steep cobbled streets crowned with Baroque churches by the sculptor Aleijadinho. Its ornate interiors and civic buildings preserve eighteenth-century mining wealth.

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